{"id":2420,"date":"2020-10-07T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference"},"modified":"2021-10-21T11:38:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T10:38:42","slug":"dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference","title":{"rendered":"Dr Mick speaks at UN Global Assistive Tech Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Founder and CEO Dr Mick Donegan was joined by Karen Dolva, Co-founder and CEO of No Isolation, to speak at the recent United Nations Global Assistive Technology Conference. Dr Mick used the invitation to speak about the benefits of using telepresent robots, both in and out of the classroom, as a result of our BubbleBusters project for children such as Benjamin, who has leukaemia and is unable to attend school due to his immune deficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Karen described the care and attention to detail which goes into the unique design of her company\u2019s AV1 robots and how the lives of many thousands more children, globally, could be transformed by this ground-breaking technology.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I7up-yz7ECU\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Founder and CEO Dr Mick Donegan was joined by Karen Dolva, Co-founder and CEO of\u00a0No Isolation, to speak at the recent United Nations Global Assistive Technology Conference. Dr Mick used the invitation to speak about the benefits of using telepresent robots, both in and out of the classroom, as a result of our BubbleBusters project for children such as Benjamin, who has leukaemia and is unable to attend school due to his immune deficiency.nKaren described the care and attention to detail which goes into the unique design of her company\u2019s AV1 robots and how the lives of many thousands more children, globally, could be transformed by this ground-breaking technology. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 60.25{5ea08703443618cd5aa440c713e162b2f5fd0296e8562a6cf21cf45e8c2d34be}; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100{5ea08703443618cd5aa440c713e162b2f5fd0296e8562a6cf21cf45e8c2d34be}; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 0; width: 100{5ea08703443618cd5aa440c713e162b2f5fd0296e8562a6cf21cf45e8c2d34be}; height: 100{5ea08703443618cd5aa440c713e162b2f5fd0296e8562a6cf21cf45e8c2d34be}; } Visit the conference page<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dr Mick speaks at UN Global Assistive Tech Conference - SpecialEffect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr Mick speaks at UN Global Assistive Tech Conference - SpecialEffect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our Founder and CEO Dr Mick Donegan was joined by Karen Dolva, Co-founder and CEO of\u00a0No Isolation, to speak at the recent United Nations Global Assistive Technology Conference. Dr Mick used the invitation to speak about the benefits of using telepresent robots, both in and out of the classroom, as a result of our BubbleBusters project for children such as Benjamin, who has leukaemia and is unable to attend school due to his immune deficiency.nKaren described the care and attention to detail which goes into the unique design of her company\u2019s AV1 robots and how the lives of many thousands more children, globally, could be transformed by this ground-breaking technology. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 60.25{5ea08703443618cd5aa440c713e162b2f5fd0296e8562a6cf21cf45e8c2d34be}; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100{5ea08703443618cd5aa440c713e162b2f5fd0296e8562a6cf21cf45e8c2d34be}; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 0; width: 100{5ea08703443618cd5aa440c713e162b2f5fd0296e8562a6cf21cf45e8c2d34be}; height: 100{5ea08703443618cd5aa440c713e162b2f5fd0296e8562a6cf21cf45e8c2d34be}; } Visit the conference page\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SpecialEffect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpecialEffectCharity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-07T12:19:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-21T10:38:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DrMickSpeaks300.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"362\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"213\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Saville\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@specialeffect\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@specialeffect\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Saville\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference\",\"name\":\"Dr Mick speaks at UN Global Assistive Tech Conference - SpecialEffect\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DrMickSpeaks300.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-07T12:19:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-21T10:38:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/b7dd8712c0d480c82cb3cae2e0b5f79d\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DrMickSpeaks300.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DrMickSpeaks300.jpg\",\"width\":362,\"height\":213,\"caption\":\"Screenshot\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Dr Mick speaks at UN Global Assistive Tech Conference\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/\",\"name\":\"SpecialEffect\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/b7dd8712c0d480c82cb3cae2e0b5f79d\",\"name\":\"Mark Saville\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bab0786552dd506dcb39545206ce726f97e78cf79c7eb47bfbfa72da4f15fd0c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bab0786552dd506dcb39545206ce726f97e78cf79c7eb47bfbfa72da4f15fd0c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Mark Saville\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Dr Mick speaks at UN Global Assistive Tech Conference - SpecialEffect","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Dr Mick speaks at UN Global Assistive Tech Conference - SpecialEffect","og_description":"Our Founder and CEO Dr Mick Donegan was joined by Karen Dolva, Co-founder and CEO of\u00a0No Isolation, to speak at the recent United Nations Global Assistive Technology Conference. Dr Mick used the invitation to speak about the benefits of using telepresent robots, both in and out of the classroom, as a result of our BubbleBusters project for children such as Benjamin, who has leukaemia and is unable to attend school due to his immune deficiency.nKaren described the care and attention to detail which goes into the unique design of her company\u2019s AV1 robots and how the lives of many thousands more children, globally, could be transformed by this ground-breaking technology. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 60.25{5ea08703443618cd5aa440c713e162b2f5fd0296e8562a6cf21cf45e8c2d34be}; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100{5ea08703443618cd5aa440c713e162b2f5fd0296e8562a6cf21cf45e8c2d34be}; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 0; width: 100{5ea08703443618cd5aa440c713e162b2f5fd0296e8562a6cf21cf45e8c2d34be}; height: 100{5ea08703443618cd5aa440c713e162b2f5fd0296e8562a6cf21cf45e8c2d34be}; } Visit the conference page","og_url":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference","og_site_name":"SpecialEffect","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpecialEffectCharity","article_published_time":"2020-10-07T12:19:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-10-21T10:38:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":362,"height":213,"url":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DrMickSpeaks300.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Mark Saville","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@specialeffect","twitter_site":"@specialeffect","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mark Saville","Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference","url":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference","name":"Dr Mick speaks at UN Global Assistive Tech Conference - SpecialEffect","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DrMickSpeaks300.jpg","datePublished":"2020-10-07T12:19:00+00:00","dateModified":"2021-10-21T10:38:42+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/b7dd8712c0d480c82cb3cae2e0b5f79d"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DrMickSpeaks300.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DrMickSpeaks300.jpg","width":362,"height":213,"caption":"Screenshot"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/dr-mick-speaks-at-un-global-assistive-tech-conference#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dr Mick speaks at UN Global Assistive Tech Conference"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/","name":"SpecialEffect","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/b7dd8712c0d480c82cb3cae2e0b5f79d","name":"Mark Saville","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bab0786552dd506dcb39545206ce726f97e78cf79c7eb47bfbfa72da4f15fd0c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bab0786552dd506dcb39545206ce726f97e78cf79c7eb47bfbfa72da4f15fd0c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Mark Saville"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}